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On Nov 22, 1:55*am, tienshanman tienshanman. wrote: ;712780 Wrote: The "Four-On-the-Floor-Gang" Story written by Streideck at al and published in Soaring. *IMO, the all-time best story ever written about X-C soaring. A second story written by Schuemann et al and published in Soaring about X-C ridge running in snow storms is also excellent. * *The "unsantized" version of the story is even better. Thanks! Any...

On Nov 28, 10:10*am, Andy wrote: On Nov 27, 2:09*pm, Dave Springford wrote: We had a computer system running at our club about 8 years ago, but have gone back to a paper system with the data entered into the accounting system at a later time. *The intent of the computer system was to save the time punching in all the flight data. *As it turns out, it didn't actually make much difference in time-savings over the course of a year. Some of...

Intersting article, impressive technology. I hadn't realized how advanced they were with UAVs. Do you have any idea on what, if any, progress is being made on the "see and be seen" side of melding UAVs into the US airspace? -John On Nov 29, 11:36 am, Frank Whiteley wrote: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/1...tiger_112909w/

On Nov 30, 6:43*pm, Renny wrote: Dave, If one does not have an SN10 do you know if the FLARM group is also planning to have "stand-alone" units available for use in the USA at the beginning of 2010? Thanks *- Renny FLARM can certainly be used independent of SN10. In addition to FLARM collision avoidance: - It is an IGC logger, optional noise sensor for us motorized types. - A version including transponder-sensing is...

Hi John, Awesome! Thanks. I can't wait to see them! But where are they? I did a quick check of the SSA web site and didn't see them. Best Regards, Paul Remde "John Leibacher" wrote in message ... Kathleen K. Taylor has scanned in all of the issues and they now available online at soaringweb.org/Soaring_Index. 30 years of the most formative years of our sport!! This treasure trove of content is now available to...

On Nov 27, 11:29*pm, Mitch wrote: Does anyone have any further information on expanding the Pegasus life limit past 3000 hours? *I know of a couple of gliders that are rapidly approaching this point, and there must be more in the U.S. *I did not realize how bad the problem was until a discussion today with some folks who truly love soaring, but very soon will not be able to fly their gliders because of this life limit. *This caused great...

And if we needed to be told what to think it would be nice if people posting advertisements to this newsgroup did so more clearly pointing out they work for Gliding International. Starting with use of the first person, "in the next issue of Gliding International we report...", presumably those involved with the magazine understand that much English. Darryl On Nov 30, 2:19*pm, "Tim Mara" wrote: really? I for...

The one I remember from my AF days was; "Illigitimi non carborundum"..................On the misplaced log book issue, the Federalies should never be involved. Owner simply makes a log book entry in his new book, Logs lost, estimated total time = 1000 hours. Why/when should / would the Federallies be involved? Illigitimi non carborundum! JJ Martin Gregorie wrote: On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:15:10 -0800, Bob wrote: * * Nihil...

On Nov 27, 7:16*pm, Vsoars wrote: As my earlier posted stated, as Chairperson of the SSA Publicity Committee, I have the project under way now. *I am preparing two of the "hockey rink" shaped CDs. One Cd is a SSA Media Kit and the other is The Soaring Publicity Handbook. (One for members to give the media and one to assist members.) *There is no replacement for a smiling person .But we need to put the materials, including...

On Nov 27, 8:30*pm, Darryl Ramm wrote: On Nov 27, 5:16*pm, Vsoars wrote: As my earlier posted stated, as Chairperson of the SSA Publicity Committee, I have the project under way now. *I am preparing two of the "hockey rink" shaped CDs. One Cd is a SSA Media Kit and the other is The Soaring Publicity Handbook. (One for members to give the media and one to assist members.) *There is no replacement for a smiling person .But we...